A mountain rescue team recounted a “tricky” rescue of a guy who fell into a well-known Lake District ghyll.
Yesterday (Tuesday, May 23), the Langdale Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team (LAMRT) was summoned after a man took a “large fall” at Stickle Ghyll, which has relatively steep rocks that are typically slippery with moss and plants.
Around 4 p.m. yesterday, the man was scrambling with companions when he fell into the ghyll below, becoming half buried.
According to a Facebook post by the rescue crew, the 3.5-hour operation was “tricky” since Coastguard Rescue 199 was unable to hoist him out owing to weather conditions. Mountain rescuers had to safely remove the walker down to the waiting helicopter.
It took a dozen people to extricate the fallen man. He was injured in several ways, including an open leg fracture and possibly spinal damage.
Stickle Ghyll is one of the most popular becks in the Lake District at 1500 feet high in the shadow of the Langdale Pikes; even in high summer the Ghyll can be an amazing spectacle. The Ghyll runs from Stickle Tarn.
A former British Military Officer, Eddie went on to study History and then Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University. A keen outdoorsman, he has co-written several books on Outdoor Survival and Wild Camping. Now living in Penrith, Ed is a keen fellrunner.
